Re: Rehab October 26, 2009
Posted by alistairb in 1.add a comment
Trevor,
That’s bad news about your ankle. We hope you are recovering well. I cannot produce any valid excuse for my lack of metres this year except for old age catching up. Looking at my log I was surprised to see a month without rowing, but hope to amend this now we are settled in Penang once more. Sorry team about the 10,000m CTC. We don’t feel up to it this month.
Best wishes to all,
Alistair and Valerie
Rehab. October 24, 2009
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Gavin, you certainly earned some tablet with your 1 mile swim and I’m sure the Erg will have helped.
Stewart, I take it you didn’t have swine ‘flu’ but whatever it was must have been pretty nasty to have set you back so much. Are you aiming to get back to lightweight? I guess you can’t keep a good man up! I hope Paula escaped the lurgy.
I’ve also headed up towards the Hwt. category after wrecking my left ankle in September – stepped off an elevated golf tee on to a wet grass slope -> loud snapping sound from ankle, inelegant somersault and end of golf for quite a while. My golfing activity has been reduced to writing articles on handicapping and hitting airballs in the garden with my swing-speed radar giving some useful feedback.
I’ve just ventured gingerly onto my C2 – a gentle 2k which seems to have done no harm so I’ll try to re-join the ranks in the next few days. Glad to see StW is still well up in the lists.
Best to all,
Trevor
The fine art of resurfacing October 22, 2009
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Now it seems that I and most other wavers have been a bit conspicuous by our absence this summer, but I’d like to reassure everyone that I’m still around.
After a bout of suspected swine flu in early August I found it tough to get back in the groove. Consequently I have once again relinquished my lightweight status. Tonight was a bit of a slog, but thirty minutes is a start, even if it’s about 5% off the pace I feel I should be hitting. My short term goal is now to help us back into the top thirty. No BIRC this year, but SIRC is still a possibility if I avoid injury and illness.
How is everyone else doing?
Cheers,
Stewart
29th on 10/10/09 October 11, 2009
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Afternoon
I hope all Wavers and their tides (is that a collective noun for Waver families?) are happy and healthy. We’re all fine here at Club HQ just finished reading the papers, drunk tea and had some Lees tablet and macaroon bar in a decadent 1/2 and 1/2 combo, sugar rush! Great to be Scottish. Apologies to those kindred spirits overseas who may now be wishing they too had a bar of macaroon or tablet. Mail order from the club HQ is available if required just send me an email.
Well I see that we are hanging on to a tope 30 place by the merest of margins well done one and all, not that I can claim credit for it but happy to do my bit and much happier just doing a wee bit as part of my general exercise routine. As part of the debate about other sports I don’t do anything competatively anymore just set my own personal targets in relation to things the alst being the Great Scottish Swim in Strathclyde Country Park. For a decidedly land based mammal that was a real biggie in my sporting challenges and I did not drown! Double bonus. Did the C2 help directly no indirectly yes as it was part of my training to get me through the mile.
Ok so that’s all from me for now hope to hear from someone soon.
Cheers
Gavin
The wanderer returns September 23, 2009
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Evening
I hope we are all well we must be collectively well because the metres are still being silently logged well done all for keeping going through this quiet spell. Although I’ve lurked around the clubhouse I was surprised to see that I had not posted for almost 2 months tut tut. My metres are not mega by any means and I’m just chugging away my small metres being part of a longer work out unlike some of the big hitters on the team with their millions.
I see that due to your good efforts we are still managing to get the StW boat in the water for the CTC thingy if I don’t do the challenge early in the month I end up being in the second boat on my own and would be happy to put in some effort if I was going to have company.
I have had a few enquiries to join the team in the last few months but the enquirers do not share how to reply to them and so the approaches have gone cold that is why I changed the message beside my name on the team list, in the hope that they would try again.
Holiday season almost over anybody have a good break? I’ve just had a week and day here and there with no real break until a trip to see my sister in Boston during October. I’m sitting in Heathrow at the moment waiting to return home for an overnight in my own bed before heading to Shetland tomorrow morning so no metres from me until Friday this week.
Anyway that’s all for now but is anybody there?
Gavin
Other Sports September 15, 2009
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Alistair’s reference to weight-training prompts the question: what other sports/training do Wavers do and how do you think it affects your rowing and vice versa? For instance Paula, Stewart and I are golfers (well done Paula in winning the medal on Saturday and showing Stewart the way – though getting round with no worse than a 6 is never that bad Stewart!). Rowing surely helps the golf but golf takes up a lot of potential rowing time with no real benefit to the rowing, I believe. Running and lifting benefit both my golf and my rowing whenever I get round to doing any of them. What are other Wavers experiences?
September CTC September 12, 2009
Posted by alistairb in Clubhouse chat.add a comment
Hi all,
I have just done a warmup (slow) mile to get the boat launched. Over the next week I hope to improve this time and probably Valerie will have another attempt or more as this is such a short row.
Temperature has dropped a couple of degrees here now, so no air con needed. Next week is a deload week for weight training, so I hope the legs will not hurt so much when rowing!
Best wishes,
AlistairB
13 months in a row September 1, 2009
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Well done on Alastair & Valerie getting us some points and keeping our 100% record of floating a boat. I had wondered if you’d come with a last minute rescue (again).
Not sure if it’s holidays, but after the surge of the June CTC it’s all gone very quiet. Maybe the StW boats will end up in dry dock at this rate.
And 26 degrees would be nice once in a while. At the moment it’s raining, as it was yesterday and the day before and so on.
Paul
CTC again August 31, 2009
Posted by alistairb in Clubhouse chat.add a comment
Hello all,
Seems that everyone is on holiday now. We put off doing the August CTC as it is very hot here. Even with cooling on we have 26ºC in the home gym. Due to lack of training, my speed work is now slower than my warm up used to be. However I can deadlift 110kg! We are both doing Wendler 5-3-1 at present.
However in spite of these handicaps we still managed three points at 1400 our time.
See you again next month.
Bye from Alistair and Valerie
CTC July boat launched at last July 30, 2009
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Hello all,
We have at last had a go at the July CTC. The delay was due to a trip to UK for a friend’s 70th birthday party and subsequent colds probably caught on crowded public transport. Sorry that the times are slow, but we are I believe the oldest team members at 69 and 70 years young.
Bye for now,
Alistair and Valerie
